China’s first home grown sample maglev train has been completed, making China the third country able to design and produce the trains after Germany and Japan. The maximum speed of this train is 500 kilometers per hour. It is expected to take its pilot run on the maglev line in Shanghai during this year’s World [...]
Officials in east China’s Zhejiang province have cancelled the plans to start the construction of the maglev train service between Shanghai and the provincial capital Hangzhou. According to a statement issued by the provincial development and reform commission on Tuesday, the project had no timetable and was still undergoing feasibility studies. The project proposal was [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised on Wednesday to redirect US $ 45 million originally set aside for the maglev project between Los Angeles and Las Vegas to develop the Interstate 215 connector to McCarran International Airport. Reid who was originally a supporter of the maglev train, switched alliances to the steel-wheeled, Victorville-bound DesertXpress [...]
